The Children's Pulpit

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PRATING OUTDOORS YOU OFTEN ASK IF YOU MAY go outdoors to play, and many times you are sent out to get the fresh air and exercise as you play. Were you ever sent outdoors to pray, or did you ever go for that purpose? To some this may seem a strange question. The church and the bedside at night seem the...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PRATING OUTDOORS YOU OFTEN ASK IF YOU MAY go outdoors to play, and many times you are sent out to get the fresh air and exercise as you play. Were you ever sent outdoors to pray, or did you ever go for that purpose? To some this may seem a strange question. The church and the bedside at night seem the places to pray, and so they are. Never forget that nor fail to do it. But remember also that outdoors is a splendid place for prayer, especially in summer. I pray outdoors more in the three summer months than in all the other nine. Jesus was especially fond of praying outdoors. We read of his praying in the open air, more than of his praying in houses, synagogues, or in the temple. Once he went out early in the morning in a quiet country place to pray; several times he sought the mountains for this purpose; you remember his praying in the Garden of Gethsemane and on Calvary. He began his ministry by praying as he was baptized in the river Jordan and ended it by praying in blessing his disciples as he ascended into the clouds. If Jesus prayed so much outdoors, surely you will enjoy doing it. Try it this summer when you are under the trees, or on a hilltop, or in a meadow, or beside the sea. Thank God for the beautiful things you are enjoying: for your health, your happy times, your friends, your parents. Ask him to make you brave, kind, patient, and true. You need not kneel down, nor say any words out loud, nor even move your lips nor close your eyes ? just make it a happy little prayer in your heart. GIVING A VACATION HOW FINE IT IS TO HAVE A vacation You enjoy getting them, but how about giving them? Let me suggest some you can give. Take a pitcher of water, when the season is dry and hot, find a little plant that looks wilted and say to it: Little plant, your ..